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Definition of Griefful
1. a. Full of grief or sorrow.
Definition of Griefful
1. Adjective. (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Griefful
1. full of grief [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Griefful
Literary usage of Griefful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville Dorset, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, John Lyly, Robert Greene (1920)
"But yet, O king, the want of lustful health Could not be half so griefful to your
grace, As these most wretched tidings that I ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"1. sad, grievous, grieved, mournful, sorry (now rare and literary or learned),
griefful (rare), lugubrious, heart- sore, broken-hearted, woeful, woebegone, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"... billing in the groves, And woo the lesser birds to sing their loves: Whilst
hapless we in griefful absence sit, Yet dare not ask a hand to lessen it. ..."
4. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"Else wilt thou make us pine in griefful woe, That ne'er knew care, or love, or
friend, or foe !'" " Straight, like a shooting comet in the air, ..."
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